UIL Art Smart 2023-2025 terms

What is an Allegory?

• A work of art that uses symbols, often human forms, to stand for ideas or to convey messages.

• the part of a painting that seems closest to the viewer.

The artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

• Art Elements

• Perspective

Background is...

• that part of a painting that seems farther away from the viewer.

• a painting of ordinary people engaged in common everyday activities.

What is a canvas?

• A painting, treated fabric, stretched over a frame, to which paint is applied.

• paper to write on

Complementary colors are...

• pairs of colors that are farthest away from each other on the color wheel, and are most different from each other.

• the artistic ingredients painters use to create a painting.

_________ is how individual elements, like light, color, lines, and shape, work with each other and as a whole to form a complete painting. Light and shade make us see three dimensional images instead of just two dimensions. Color helps set the mood, and suggests relationship between the parts of a painting. Lines and shape organize space and create structure.

• Composition

• mood

Contrast- A comparison that draws attention to the differences between things. Artists use many different elements to create contrast.

• color (warm and cool or bright and dull)

• light (light areas of the canvas and darker areas)

• lines (straight and curved; vertical and diagonal)

• texture (hard and soft , rough and smooth)

cool colors- such as blue, green, lavender, purple and others that we associate with cool or cold temperatures.

• cool green of a shaded forest

• icy blue of a mountain lake.

• warm red of fire

A style of painting developed in France early in the Contemporary period of art history. Artists took familiar objects from everyday life, broke them up into geometric figures like cubes and triangles, then put them back together, forcing viewers to see familiar objects in unfamiliar ways.

• Cubism

• Fauvism

A style of painting practiced briefly at the beginning of the Contemporary period of art history, with shockingly bright colors and often strange or twisted forms of human figures and other objects.

• Fauvism

• Cubism